What's It Take To Bee A Spelling S-T-A-R?

First up, It’s ICYMI, our menagerie of misfit news week-in-review panel. We’ll talk with Axios’ Mike Deehan and freelance journalist Megan Johnson about the Enhanced Games in Vegas, a Bangladeshi buffalo that looks eerily like our 47th president, and if “you can’t beat Boston” is in fact the best promotional slogan for the city.Then, we talk about the new podcast Fighting Crime. The podcast details the social and economic impact of our obsession with true crime. It's hosted by former GBH’er and former host of Try This at the Washington Post, Cristina Quinn. We'll talk with her about the launch and what we can look forward to. Lastly, this week was the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Three Massachusetts kids joined the competition, Edgar will meet two of them. Twelve year-olds Adarsh Venkannagari and Sanjay Malhotra Zoom in together from their hotel in D.C.

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First up, It’s ICYMI, our menagerie of misfit news week-in-review panel. We’ll talk with Axios’ Mike Deehan and freelance journalist Megan Johnson about the Enhanced Games in Vegas, a Bangladeshi buffalo that looks eerily like our 47th president, and if “you can’t beat Boston” is in fact the best promotional slogan for the city. Then, we talk about the new podcast Fighting Crime. The podcast details the social and economic impact of our obsession with true crime. It's hosted by former GBH’er and former host of Try This at the Washington Post, Cristina Quinn. We'll talk with her about the launch and what we can look forward to. Lastly, this week was the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Three Massachusetts kids joined the competition, Edgar will meet two of them. Twelve year-olds Adarsh Venkannagari and Sanjay Malhotra Zoom in together from their hotel in D.C.